I'll add that it's quite difficult to do comparables in terms of numbers, because there are many more people involved at the municipal level, and as we've said several times, the data is spotty. It's one of the reasons we wanted to work on this level as well.
What sometimes also happens is that there are young people aspiring to get into politics, and they will work on campaign teams for provincial or federal elections. They will then see the levels of harassment and decide they don't want to potentially continue on a path they may have already chosen. Sometimes, they will then move towards a municipal level instead, or indeed, they will move into different career paths.
This is another illustration of how the pipeline is broken. Those who are even interested...when they work on campaign teams, they're often the ones tasked with dealing with the harassment in order to shield the candidate. They end up bearing the brunt of it and, therefore, don't want to become involved in the first place.
